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Do we even need handwriting anymore? Kitty Burns Florey thinks we do. In a world overrun by texts and emails, KBF is one of the last outposts of penwomanship. Call the show and tell us about the nun who made you the readable writer you are today. Also in studio, Terry Walters joins Colin to talk blueberries! The pair celebrates this year's bumper crop and share what they love about our little blue friends.

Just wanted you to know, regarding your upcoming show on the demise? of handwriting, that this is a subject I've been particularly concerned about for some time. I even wrote a piece about it several months ago, because I'm so worried about it.

But I believe that the handwritten thank-you note will never die, although even etiquette experts now say e-mails are acceptable. Not around here they ain't! Writing a thank-you note is like sending flowers. It's just a darn nice thing to do. And cheaper than flowers.

My son David in CA is on a one-person campaign to keep handwriting alive. To this end he bought a big box of writing paper and a (yes!) fountain pen. I get notes from him at least once a month, and it does my heart good to see his handwriting. However, I read somewhere that it makes you smarter to do old things in new ways, such as working with your opposite hand, so in order to get smarter I answer David's letters holding the pen in my other hand. Somehow I don't think it does his heart good to see my handwriting. But hey, it's forging new neural pathways, so who cares if you can read it.

Go on, ask me the names of the Seven Dwarfs and the capital of Mississippi.

Any tips on writing well with an electronic pen? I have to use one to give presentations live online, and it drives me insane. My hard-copy writing has always been very awkward looking. Online, I write like a 3-year-old.

(All I know about the Palmer Method is what my grandmother showed me years ago: draw overlapping loops. I tried it, but didn't have much success.)

Colin, my significant-other/spousal equivalent probably will not approve of my writing about his handwriting to you, but I will anyway. You've seen his handwriting, and you know that it's large and misshapen and labored. I saw it not long after we started dating, and having taken a handwriting analysis course (at Asylum Hill CC), I recognized the handwriting of someone who is either somewhat disturbed or a serial killer. Silly me, we kept dating. THEN I found out that he, too, was forced to switch from his natural left-hand preference to his right hand when he was in elem. school. He is ambidextrous, but his writing, obviously, suffered. (I'm a learning specialist, so I know the implication of forcing a child to switch. And, did you know that one technique we use to help a person with bad handwriting is to teach him/her calligraphy? Apparently, it has to do with training motor function using the other side of the brain. Curious tid-bit of the day...)

Some individuals have poor penmanship, although I'm not sure if the Internet, email or texting is to blame. It may be a result of just not caring about what we produce in this "get it done fast and cheap" world. What seems to be more at risk is the ability to craft complete sentences. So often, I receive emails from "highly educated" colleagues, that make me a little unsure about delegating assignments to them that involve....thought.